Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTGreat minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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You must render: never report.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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